Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/77

A white building with green shutters and pointed roof. At the front is a pointy tower with a round ball and weathervane on top.

... that New York's New Hempstead Presbyterian Church (current building, pictured) was the first established in the colony west of the Hudson River by a congregation of English descent?
... that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York, deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
... that the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building has been described as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?

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